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TIL Squirrels terminal velocity is so low they can fall from any height and survive

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xV78o TIL that the Momo Challenge, in which it was reported in 2018 and 2019 that children were being enticed to perform dangerous tasks including suicide, was a hoax and media reports about deaths linked to the challenge were "far fetched and devoid of any evidence".
5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.
MePMb TIL Dan Aykroyd conceived of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for his initial script for Ghostbusters the movie. He created the character to show that "it seems harmless and puffy and cute—but given the right circumstances, everything can be turned black and become evil.”
QNbXa TIL that beer can become lightstruck a.k.a. "skunked" by being put in direct sunlight for less than ten seconds
OoxG1 TIL "Thank God for Mississippi" is a saying used in the South because of Mississippi's commonly/stereotypically low rankings in quality of life among US states, thus sparing residents of other states the shame of being ranked last